Thoughtful Quotes page 131

Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when other's die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesnt just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further... And one fine morning- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Einstein was right, time is relative to the observer. When your looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by in front of you, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.